The Pleasaunce Walled Garden

The secluded Pleasaunce is entered directly from the Sir Henry Price Garden, and they complement each other very well.

The Pleasaunce is virtually a garden within a garden, a small central lawn with formal bedding and attractive ornamental fountain being enclosed by wonderfully clipped yew hedges. There are dramatic arches in the hedges, framing stunning portraits of the garden's features. The yew hedging was originally planted in the time of Sir William Boord (1890-1903) and is clipped once a year, in August.

There are more flower beds outside the yew hedges, but inside the outer walls. Some of these beds are filled with late summer-flowering shrubs, such as a bank of fuchsias. Others contain colourful annuals. The walls themselves support rare climbing shrubs such as the yellow-flowered honeysuckle, Lonicera trogophylla.

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